Example sentences of "[noun sg] be one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | West Indian and African heads of household the proportion is one in forty ( Haskey , 1989 ) . |
| 32 | This general question is one to which we also return , in Chapter 8 . |
| 33 | Where the tenancy in question is one to which Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 applies , it is often convenient if the minimum period of notice is six months and the form of the notice is capable of being that prescribed for the purposes of s25 of that Act . |
| 34 | A closed question is one with a fixed number of alternative replies . |
| 35 | However , if the above criticism of the partial equilibrium model is put to one side , the implication of Roll 's work is that the only valid test is one in which the various market indices , which are used as proxies for the market portfolio , are examined to see if they are mean variance efficient . |
| 36 | The approach to primary education endorsed by the Plowden committee was one in which individual programmes of learning were supported by group work and whole class lessons . |
| 37 | Her attitude was one with which the reader will now be familiar : that women could not reasonably expect the same pay as men : That we know would be impossible , at least in the meantime , as up to now all girl apprentices have only served an apprenticeship of three years , whereas a boy serves seven . |
| 38 | What NIREX faced was a complete lack of credibility : the public mood was one in which almost anything was preferable to a nuclear dump in their backyard , however low the radioactivity . |
| 39 | A cohesive team is one in which the number and strength of mutual positive attitudes among the members far exceeds the number of negatives . |
| 40 | How to set up : It 's easy if you know other families in your area , and an ideal circle is one in which you all know and trust each other . |
| 41 | The following are by way of being examples and are not intended to be definitive : ( i ) where the relationship between the debtor and the proposed surety is one in which the real possibility of the exercise of undue influence in any of its well recognised forms or of misrepresentation is present to the knowledge of the creditor , the creditor must take notice of the position and act reasonably in the circumstances : see per Dillon L.J . |
| 42 | A suspended second ( or ‘ sus 2 ’ ) chord is one in which the major or minor 3rd is replaced by the second to create a more unfinished , open , suspended feel . |
| 43 | A logistic curve is one in which the rate of increase of a population is a function of the size of the initial population . |
| 44 | erm Yet the distinction is one on which Proust repeatedly insists , at least for critical purposes , and elsewhere I think he puts the same idea quite succinctly , when he says and I quote , ‘ The man who inhabits the same body as a great genius has very little contact with him . ’ |
| 45 | This distinction is one between ‘ restricted ’ literacy and the ‘ full ’ realisation of the ‘ potentialities ’ of literacy . |
| 46 | A ‘ plea for removal ’ crisis is one in which family members or neighbours or relatives or other professional agents and agencies such as … police , GPs , health visitors and district nurses , plead for or urgently request , the removal of the individual at the centre of the crisis ( O'Hagan , 1986 , p. 40 ) . |
| 47 | I hate tournaments where the leader is one over par . ’ |
| 48 | A single bloom is one with a single circlet of five petals , as you will invariably find in the wild rose of the hedgerow and , of course , in a number of the modern bred varieties as well . |
| 49 | • The basic biochemical process is one by which glycogen in the muscle ( a store of glucose ) is broken down to release energy which can then be used to drive the muscles . |
| 50 | Probably the most likely outcome is one in which McAlpine seeks a Judicial Review . |
| 51 | The control group is one in which as many characteristics as possible are ‘ matched ’ with the known characteristics of the group under study — except , that is , for the variable or characteristic in which we are interested . |
| 52 | As far as public image is concerned , the prevailing consumer-oriented climate is one in which professional practices are increasingly scrutinised . |
| 53 | But once embarked upon , the journey from hunting to farming was one from which there is no return . |
| 54 | I had to accept the fact that he was an individualist , and that for him the only tolerable war was one in which he felt he was making some personal contribution — personal , but never ‘ glory-seeking ’ , as he had made clear in 1940 , not least by being prepared to postpone obtaining his commission . |
| 55 | Whilst the experiment was limited to trainee engineers and by the type of microcomputer used , the results of this investigation indicated that : 1 ) the mode of man-machine interaction which was most popular and has the fewest dissenters , was one in which the user directed the course of action , as in the modular program ; 2 ) a fast design time was most likely to be achieved by the use of an optimization technique ; 3 ) an optimum design was most likely to be achieved by a preprogrammed optimization technique , but only where the problem , design parameters and constraints were understood ; 4 ) the technique thought most likely to allow some gaining of insight was one in which the user has control of the program , as in the modular program . |
| 56 | ‘ Can you describe any of them ? ’ 'There was one with a beard … |
| 57 | The inter-war period was one in which the distribution of population began to come to terms with a range of structural economic and social changes . |
| 58 | The abolitionist prospectus was one in which everybody gained and nobody lost ; conflict was both unnecessary and irrational . |
| 59 | On the other hand , the general theme was one in which Mrs Thatcher was able to tap reserves of nationalist sentiment , as could her flamboyant , flak-jacketed Defence Secretary , Michael Heseltine . |
| 60 | The Ellis-Beto-Estelle ( Estelle was Beto 's successor ) era was one in which the primacy of getting good people to do the important jobs was unquestioned . |